Life With Ladybug

By Shannon Magsam, social media slave and mutha blogger Hey, mamas! Did you know that women are responsible for at least 85 percent of buying decisions in the home? Yep, it’s mostly women who decide […]

While visiting relatives on my dad’s side this past Easter weekend, I overheard a few funnies. I’d like to share the following: From Ladybug, indignant that the dog would not be traveling with us: “Isn’t […]

By Shannon Magsam, quiz queen I saw this kid Q & A on another website and thought I’d conduct my own experiment. Do this with your own kids to find out what they really think […]

By Shannon Magsam All day yesterday — as I visited the Botanical Gardens and Gulley Park and the ice cream store with my husband, sister-in-law and Ladybug — I kept thinking about Wendy. Wendy died […]

By Shannon Magsam, Ladybug’s mama We’re on the docking system around here. The kid, that is, not the adults. (Fallout of the Great Recession aside.) The kidlet, a.k.a. Ladybug, has a little chart of stuff […]

By Shannon Magsam, wifey My lovely wedding ring glinted in the sunlight as we drove to church on a recent Sunday.  I lifted it up to get a closer look at its sparkle. “Nine years […]

By Shannon Magsam, Ladybug’s mama Do you want to cry? A really cleansing cry? If so, you might try reading Notes Between a Mother and Daughter: Life on the Refrigerator Door. In fairness, I didn’t […]

By Shannon Magsam, Ladybug’s red-faced mama So I was flipping through pictures on my digital camera recently, showing them to a woman I was interviewing for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Suddenly I was looking at something […]